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Paul Cousins - Oxide Manifesto the tape loop wizard has me hypnotized tonight

Incredibly excited for my first residency, a 5-day workshop with Dyski - 'Composing with Tape'. Set by the coast in Cornwall, 21-25 April 2025. A week of experimental analog music creation, sound art and tape machines. dyski.co/Paul-Cousins-C…

I'm Bopping New Grass by Talk Talk Broken Patches of Sky by Paul Cousins Precious Sight by @richardhawley ▶ bopping.to/@chris_hipgrave

dyski.co/Paul-Cousins-C… Join sound artist and composer Paul Cousins for a week-long exploration of reel-to-reel tape machines and the creative possibilities of analog recording. 1 places left! ↓

I had an inspiring conversation with Deborah Nash which features in this month’s The Wire Magazine. We talked about rescued equipment, and Nigel my Akai 4000DS mkii (pictured) gets to complete his story arc. From discarded in a vicar’s cupboard, to having his name in the paper.

Back in the lab 〰️🧪 Akai 4000DS mkii Akai 1722L WEM Watkins Copicat TEAC M-30 Soundcraft EPM6 #analogue

26" tape loop. I cut 9 sections from other loops and randomly spliced them together. Have you ever seen a Copicat echo snap? 🐈 ➰ #soundart

I'm Bopping It Breaks (Chapter IX) by @vynehall Ninety Seconds for Celeste by Slow Attack Ensemble Assemblage by Paul Cousins ▶ bopping.to/@chris_hipgrave

More experiments with this setup. I will never tire of 'Repeat Rate' on the RE-201. It's my favourite control on any piece of equipment, ever. Bliss! 🎶🧡 #soundart

This is how to manually record at different speeds using the pause lever on a reel-to-reel. When the pause lever is engaged and recording is activated, you can move the tape across the record head manually. The faster you move the tape, the lower the pitch. #analog

Released this Friday 21st March. 'Half-Speed Bias no.3' is a 14-minute tape loop sound collage. Created using 2 reel-to-reel & captured live in one take. It will be PWYW for 48 hours on Bandcamp. paulcousins.bandcamp.com

new release! ‘Half-Speed Bias no.3’ is an abstract sound collage of prepared 1/4” tape loops, field recordings and sound effects. A shifting soundscape with no fixed bpm, key or time signature. pay-what-you-want on Bandcamp for 48 hrs 🥜 paulcousins.bandcamp.com/track/half-spe…

more Pause Lever, this time using it to build a sequence. This can achieve the effect of different sections of tape being spliced together. Using the same sound here, but it could be anything. The workmen making a racket outside my window, for instance. #tape

One year ago today we were shooting this film for Fact. This was a prototype of my installation ‘Atomised Listening’. I learnt so much about the work before installing it at Stone Nest in November. The full film is available here: factmag.com/2024/06/07/pat…

Spring is here, enjoy some Frippertronics. Playing a Tele into a TEAC mixer, which is blended with playback from deck 2 then sent back into deck 1, which is recording. Once the tape spool runs out, the entire recording is on it. I got lost for hours and hours.

More from this Frippertronics setup. The technical limitations in using this equipment always gives interesting results. Adding wonky glitches, using the pause lever to slow machine 1 down. This is basically an elaborate delay pedal with a finite timer (the tape length) #analog

If your tape machine has 3 heads, you have a tape echo. Connect your instrument to a mixer. Connect tape machine output to a 2nd channel. Connect mixer output to tape machine input. Make sure you're monitoring the play head. Press record & control the echo with the 2nd channel.

Composing With Tape, a five day residential workshop in Lamorna, Cornwall. In a beautiful house surrounded by woodland we created, experimented, talked and listened. Thanks to all the wonderful artists who shared their ideas and to Dyski for organising so seamlessly 〰️

Next show 9th June, a collaborative performance with Popular Music at The Horse Hospital, WC1N 1JD thehorsehospital.com/events/popular…